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A quick guide to buying Valentine's gifts for your special guy.

Travel to Umbria in central Italy with us as we design a dream wedding for an intrepid couple!

Choosing the type of florals for your ceremony can be stressful, which is why we've picked out three of our favorite options.

How much do wedding flowers cost and why. A handy guide to how much the floral elements that go into weddings cost.

A studding celebration on the rooftop of Pearl Street's Avanti in downtown Boulder, Colorado.

The five basic steps on how to work with a wedding florist including how to secure your dream florist with an example email and photos.

Here at Petals, we've made vases out of just about everything from pineapples to pumpkins. Every fall we host a floral design workshop where we design in pumpkins but if you aren't local or available this year, no sweat! This blog post will show you exactly what to do with lots of inspiration photos too! You will first want to source your pumpkin, may I suggest visiting a local pumpkin patch and cutting your own? You'll be supporting a local farmer and sourcing the freshes

A fairytale wedding in the mountains of northern Italy wit

Delivering flowers in a pandemic has brought such joy and beautiful perspective on my neighbors in an otherwise daunting year.

We live in a world where instantaneous gratification is promised, packaged, & delivered on a daily basis. Gardens don't play that game...

The Yule Log is a northern European tradition dating back to pre-Christian times. This ancient act of bringing the outdoors in to decorate the home in the dead of winter is also a great way to pass the time with family and friends. This year our kitten even got in on the fun! Traditionally the Yule Log would be constructed from materials foraged from outside. Family and friends would come together and decorate the log with twine, berries, evergreen, and bits of paper with

Flowers really do make people happy, just ask the Danes - originators of cultivating joy amidst winter’s frost. 5 ways to cultivate cozy!

You're getting married? Congratulations! Growing your own wedding flowers is an incredibly memorable, eco-friendly, and budget conscious way to contribute in a meaningful way to your wedding. Here is a wedding crown I harvested from my garden for a last summer wedding: The first thing you need to consider when growing your own flowers is the season your wedding will take place in. In the Northern Hemisphere, if its Spring or Summer you should be fine. Fall or Winter and

How to mix white flowers with green foliage for an elevated tropical feel to your wedding flowers.

I was over the moon excited when Genevieve contacted me about doing the flowers for a hospital grand opening with a color scheme of light blue and white. My excitement turned to slight panic as I started thinking in detail about the color scheme. White flowers are so numerous that designing with them has its own challenges (more about that below) but blue as a natural color is tricky. You see, actual blue almost doesn't exist in nature! ( Check out this amazing short docu

In late August we hosted two sold-out floral design workshops! They were SO much flower-filled fun! Saturday night we filled the design...

When I started growing flowers to sell I didn't envisage doing large events. Instead I imagined designing a flower crown here, a bouquet...

Last weekend we celebrated the grand opening of our design studio: The Arboretum. For years this space has served as a heated growing space for our dahlia starts, bougainvillea, and fruit trees. Over the last year we have updated the space with a lofted ceiling featuring sky lights and a 15 ft sliding door for better climate control and to bring more light into the space. We are now super excited to offer small group workshops and events in this enchanting space! So far w

With Living Coral ordained "The Color of 2019" last month, we are just in time to plan an on-trend flower garden that will provide you with a la mode cut flowers all summer long! Here I will detail 4 color combinations, one for each season, that perfectly compliment the coral blooms that promise to be all the rage this year. 1. Coral and Yellow - Spring This combination is well suited for spring arrangements and weddings and pairs well with aqua and beach themes. Suggest